How Many Have a Working Quill Feed?

My 1966 Bridgeport feed works fine. Like others I just use it with my boring head
 
The power down-feed is best for boring, but I sometimes use it for drilling as well.
 
Eddyde said:
The power down-feed is best for boring, but I sometimes use it for drilling as well.
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Somewhere in the dark recesses of my mind I recall being told that the power quill feed is not to be used for drilling.
 
Mine works on a 90's ACRA. I use it for boring bars. Not often, but when I need it there's nothing else that works as well and as easily.
 
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Like others have said, I use mine for the boring head. Works great. 2004 Jet 9x49.
 
Mine works. I only use it on the last pass during boring operations.
 
Mine works after recently opening the gear box, cleaning the old grease out and putting new grease in. The mill is an Index 645 and in the manual it says what drill size the clutch is set for on a new mill so it’s definitely intended to be used for drilling operations.
 
Cinci Toolmaster 1D, quill feed works fine. A couple years back it quit on me, I did a full tear down of the quill feed gear box (it wasn’t a big deal), found a small pin had sheared off. Why the pin sheared I can’t explain, since there was no event.

True, I don’t use the quill feed very often (ie. boring etc as others have said), but then I don’t use the Y axis feed very often, or a facing head very often, heck some machines don’t get used but once a year - I still want everything to work when the time comes.

Take it apart, figure it out, fix it (there is probably a YouTube video on it) - that is part of the fun of this hobby.
 
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